Protected Areas Programme

Vol 14 No 3 PROTECTED AREA CATEGORIES 2004

Protected Areas Programme

Vol 14 No 3 PROTECTED AREA CATEGORIES 2004

The international journal for protected area managers

ISSN: 0960-233X

Published three times a year by the World Commission on Protected Areas (WCPA) of IUCN The World Conservation Union. Editor: Paul Goriup Assistant Editor: Barbara Creed Translations: Beth Varley and Translate-ABook (French), Lilia Knight (Spanish)
Parks Advisory Board David Sheppard Chairman (Head, IUCN Protected Areas Programme) Paul Goriup (NatureBureau) Stuart Chape (UNEP/WCMC) Estherine Lisinge-Fotabong (UNEP Division of GEF Coordination) Claudio Maretti (WWF Brazil) Nikita Lopoukhine (Chair, WCPA)

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Parks is published to strengthen international collaboration among protected area professionals and to enhance their role, status and activities by:

maintaining and improving an effective network of protected area managers throughout the world, building on the established network of WCPA; serving as a leading global forum for the exchange of information on issues relating to protected area establishment and management; ensuring that protected areas are placed at the forefront of contemporary environmental issues such as biodiversity conservation and ecologically sustainable development.

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Cover: Clockwise: Serengeti National Park, Tanzania. Photo: Sue Stolton . Lundy Island, off the west coast of England, is surrounded by the UKs first Marine Nature Reserve, Category IV. Photo: Adrian Phillips. Participants of the Speaking a Common Language workshop, held in the Cotswolds, UK in 2003. Photo: Adrian Phillips . Hosky Island and Reef lie off the coast of Gladstone and are situated in a green zone of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park, Australia. Photo: GBRMPA.

2004 IUCN, Gland, Switzerland. Produced by the NatureBureau, UK. Production of Parks is supported by the Taiwan Council of Agriculture and the United States National Park Service.